U+0719 "ܙ" Syriac Letter Zain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ܙ
U+0719 "ܙ" Syriac Letter Zain is the seventh letter of the Syriac alphabet, representing the voiced alveolar fricative sound /z/, similar to the English "z". In the Syriac script, this character is used in writing various dialects of the Syriac language, including Classical, Western, and Eastern forms, where it appears in religious texts, liturgical works, and modern literature. Its shape typically consists of a curved or angular form with a distinctive top stroke, and it holds a numerical value of 7 in the Syriac alphanumeric system, reflecting the ancient Semitic tradition of assigning numeric values to letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0719 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Syriac Letter Zain |
| Block | Syriac |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Arabic Letter |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ܙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ܙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xDC 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0719 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000719 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0719 |